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An international delivery company hosts a delivery management system on AWS. Drivers use the system to upload confirmation of delivery. Confirmation includes the recipient’s signature or a photo of the package with the recipient. The driver’s handheld device uploads signatures and photos through FTP to a single Amazon EC2 instance. Each handheld device saves a file in a directory based on the signed-in user, and the file name matches the delivery number. The EC2 instance then adds metadata to the file after querying a central database to pull delivery information. The file is then placed in Amazon S3 for archiving.As the company expands, drivers report that the system is rejecting connections. The FTP server is having problems because of dropped connections and memory issues in response to these problems, a system engineer schedules a cron task to reboot the EC2 instance every 30 minutes. The billing team reports that files are not always in the archive and that the central system is not always updated.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maximizes scalability to ensure that the archive always receives the files and that systems are always updated. The handheld devices cannot be modified, so the company cannot deploy a new application.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company wants to use AWS to create a business continuity solution in case the company's main on-premises application fails. The application runs on physical servers that also run other applications. The on-premises application that the company is planning to migrate uses a MySQL database as a data store. All the company's on-premises applications use operating systems that are compatible with Amazon EC2.Which solution will achieve the company's goal with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company is developing a new serverless API by using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The company integrated the Lambda functions with API Gateway to use several shared libraries and custom classes.A solutions architect needs to simplify the deployment of the solution and optimize for code reuse.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A delivery company is running a serverless solution in the AWS Cloud. The solution manages user data, delivery information, and past purchase details. The solution consists of several microservices. The central user service stores sensitive data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. Several of the other microservices store a copy of parts of the sensitive data in different storage services.The company needs the ability to delete user information upon request. As soon as the central user service deletes a user, every other microservice must also delete its copy of the data immediately.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company has five development teams that have each created five AWS accounts to develop and host applications. To track spending, the development teams log in to each account every month, record the current cost from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, and provide the information to the company's finance team.The company has strict compliance requirements and needs to ensure that resources are created only in AWS Regions in the United States. However, some resources have been created in other Regions.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the finance team the ability to track and consolidate expenditures for all the accounts. The solution also must ensure that the company can create resources only in Regions in the United States.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way? (Choose three.) E. Create an IAM role in the management account. Attach a policy that includes permissions to view the Billing and Cost Management console. Allow the finance team users to assume the role. Use AWS Cost Explorer and the Billing and Cost Management console to analyze cost. F. Create an IAM role in each AWS account. Attach a policy that includes permissions to view the Billing and Cost Management console. Allow the finance team users to assume the role.

A solutions architect wants to cost-optimize and appropriately size Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS account. The solutions architect wants to ensure that the instances are optimized based on CPU, memory, and network metrics.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.) E. Create an EC2 Instance Savings Plan for the AWS Regions, instance families, and operating systems of interest.

A company runs an ecommerce application in a single AWS Region. The application uses a five-node Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster to store information about customers and their recent orders. The DB cluster experiences a large number of write transactions throughout the day.The company needs to replicate the data in the Aurora database to another Region to meet disaster recovery requirements. The company has an RPO of 1 hour.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST cost?

A solutions architect is designing an AWS account structure for a company that consists of multiple teams. All the teams will work in the same AWS Region. The company needs a VPC that is connected to the on-premises network. The company expects less than 50 Mbps of total traffic to and from the on-premises network.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.) E. Use AWS Direct Connect for connectivity to the on-premises network.

A company needs to architect a hybrid DNS solution. This solution will use an Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone for the domain cloud.example.com for the resources stored within VPCs.The company has the following DNS resolution requirements:On-premises systems should be able to resolve and connect to cloud.example.com.All VPCs should be able to resolve cloud.example.com.There is already an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises corporate network and AWS Transit Gateway.Which architecture should the company use to meet these requirements with the HIGHEST performance?

A company runs an IoT platform on AWS. IoT sensors in various locations send data to the company’s Node.js API servers on Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance that uses a 4 TB General Purpose SSD volume.The number of sensors the company has deployed in the field has increased over time, and is expected to grow significantly. The API servers are consistently overloaded and RDS metrics show high write latency.Which of the following steps together will resolve the issues permanently and enable growth as new sensors are provisioned, while keeping this platform cost-efficient? (Choose two.) E. Re-architect the database tier to use Amazon DynamoDB instead of an RDS MySQL DB instance.

A company runs a customer service center that accepts calls and automatically sends all customers a managed, interactive, two-way experience survey by text message. The applications that support the customer service center run on machines that the company hosts in an on-premises data center. The hardware that the company uses is old, and the company is experiencing downtime with the system. The company wants to migrate the system to AWS to improve reliability.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST ongoing operational overhead?

A company is rearchitecting its applications to run on AWS. The company’s infrastructure includes multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The company's development team needs different levels of access. The company wants to implement a policy that requires all Windows EC2 instances to be joined to an Active Directory domain on AWS. The company also wants to implement enhanced security processes such as multi-factor authentication (MFA). The company wants to use managed AWS services wherever possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company implements a containerized application by using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon API Gateway The application data is stored in Amazon Aurora databases and Amazon DynamoDB databases. The company automates infrastructure provisioning by using AWS CloudFormation. The company automates application deployment by using AWS CodePipeline.A solutions architect needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that meets an RPO of 2 hours and an RTO of 4 hours.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company has deployed its database on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in the us-east-1 Region. The company needs to make its data available to customers in Europe. The customers in Europe must have access to the same data as customers in the United States (US) and will not tolerate high application latency or stale data. The customers in Europe and the customers in the US need to write to the database. Both groups of customers need to see updates from the other group in real time.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is building an electronic document management system in which users upload their documents. The application stack is entirely serverless and runs on AWS in the eu-central-1 Region. The system includes a web application that uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution for delivery with Amazon S3 as the origin. The web application communicates with Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoints. The API Gateway APIs call AWS Lambda functions that store metadata in an Amazon Aurora Serverless database and put the documents into an S3 bucket.The company is growing steadily and has completed a proof of concept with its largest customer. The company must improve latency outside of Europe.Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.) E. Add an Amazon RDS proxy between the Lambda functions and the Aurora Serverless database.

A software as a service (SaaS) company uses AWS to host a service that is powered by AWS PrivateLink. The service consists of proprietary software that runs on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The instances are in private subnets in multiple Availability Zones in the eu-west-2 Region. All the company's customers are in eu-west-2.However, the company now acquires a new customer in the us-east-1 Region. The company creates a new VPC and new subnets in us-east-1. The company establishes inter-Region VPC peering between the VPCs in the two Regions.The company wants to give the new customer access to the SaaS service, but the company does not want to immediately deploy new EC2 resources in us-east-1.Which solution will meet these requirements?

Accompany is deploying a new cluster for big data analytics on AWS. The cluster will run across many Linux Amazon EC2 instances that are spread across multiple Availability Zones.All of the nodes in the cluster must have read and write access to common underlying file storage. The file storage must be highly available, must be resilient, must be compatible with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), and must accommodate high levels of throughput.Which storage solution will meet these requirements?

A car rental company has built a serverless REST API to provide data to its mobile app. The app consists of an Amazon API Gateway API with a Regional endpoint, AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon Aurora MySQL Serverless DB cluster. The company recently opened the API to mobile apps of partners. A significant increase in the number of requests resulted, causing sporadic database memory errors.Analysis of the API traffic indicates that clients are making multiple HTTP GET requests for the same queries in a short period of time. Traffic is concentrated during business hours, with spikes around holidays and other events.The company needs to improve its ability to support the additional usage while minimizing the increase in costs associated with the solution.Which strategy meets these requirements?

A company is currently in the design phase of an application that will need an RPO of less than 5 minutes and an RTO of less than 10 minutes. The solutions architecture team is forecasting that the database will store approximately 10 TB of data. As part of the design, they are looking for a database solution that will provide the company with the ability to fail over to a secondary Region.Which solution will meet these business requirements at the LOWEST cost?

A company built an ecommerce website on AWS using a three-tier web architecture. The application is Java-based and composed of an Amazon CloudFront distribution, an Apache web server layer of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and a backend Amazon Aurora MySQL database.Last month, during a promotional sales event, users reported errors and timeouts while adding items to their shopping carts. The operations team recovered the logs created by the web servers and reviewed Aurora DB cluster performance metrics. Some of the web servers were terminated before logs could be collected and the Aurora metrics were not sufficient for query performance analysis.Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to improve application performance visibility during peak traffic events? (Choose three.) E. Enable and configure AWS CloudTrail to collect and analyze application activity from Amazon EC2 and Aurora F. Enable Aurora MySQL DB cluster performance benchmarking and publish the stream to AWS X-Ray.

A company that provides image storage services wants to deploy a customer-facing solution to AWS. Millions of individual customers will use the solution. The solution will receive batches of large image files, resize the files, and store the files in an Amazon S3 bucket for up to 6 months.The solution must handle significant variance in demand. The solution must also be reliable at enterprise scale and have the ability to rerun processing jobs in the event of failure.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company needs to implement a patching process for its servers. The on-premises servers and Amazon EC2 instances use a variety of tools to perform patching. Management requires a single report showing the patch status of all the servers and instances.Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

A company is running a traditional web application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to refactor the application as microservices that run on containers. Separate versions of the application exist in two distinct environments: production and testing. Load for the application is variable, but the minimum load and the maximum load are known. A solutions architect needs to design the updated application with a serverless architecture that minimizes operational complexity.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company’s solutions architect needs to provide secure Remote Desktop connectivity to users for Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are hosted in a VPC. The solution must integrate centralized user management with the company's on-premises Active Directory. Connectivity to the VPC is through the internet. The company has hardware that can be used to establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application uses MongoDB as a key-value database. According to the company's technical guidelines, all Amazon EC2 instances must be hosted in a private subnet without an internet connection. In addition, all connectivity between applications and databases must be encrypted. The database must be able to scale based on demand.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company uses an on-premises data analytics platform. The system is highly available in a fully redundant configuration across 12 servers in the company’s data center.The system runs scheduled jobs, both hourly and daily, in addition to one-time requests from users. Scheduled jobs can take between 20 minutes and 2 hours to finish running and have tight SLAs. The scheduled jobs account for 65% of the system usage. User jobs typically finish running in less than 5 minutes and have no SLA. The user jobs account for 35% of system usage. During system failures, scheduled jobs must continue to meet SLAs. However, user jobs can be delayed.A solutions architect needs to move the system to Amazon EC2 instances and adopt a consumption-based model to reduce costs with no long-term commitments. The solution must maintain high availability and must not affect the SLAs.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

An events company runs a ticketing platform on AWS. The company’s customers configure and schedule their events on the platform. The events result in large increases of traffic to the platform. The company knows the date and time of each customer’s events.The company runs the platform on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The ECS cluster consists of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group uses a predictive scaling policy.The ECS cluster makes frequent requests to an Amazon S3 bucket to download ticket assets. The ECS cluster and the S3 bucket are in the same AWS Region and the same AWS account. Traffic between the ECS cluster and the S3 bucket flows across a NAT gateway.The company needs to optimize the cost of the platform without decreasing the platform's availability.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.) E. Replace the predictive scaling policy with scheduled scaling policies for the scheduled events.

A company processes environmental data. The company has set up sensors to provide a continuous stream of data from different areas in a city. The data is available in JSON format.The company wants to use an AWS solution to send the data to a database that does not require fixed schemas for storage. The data must be sent in real time.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is hosting a monolithic REST-based API for a mobile app on five Amazon EC2 instances in public subnets of a VPC. Mobile clients connect to the API by using a domain name that is hosted on Amazon Route 53. The company has created a Route 53 multivalue answer routing policy with the IP addresses of all the EC2 instances. Recently, the app has been overwhelmed by large and sudden increases to traffic. The app has not been able to keep up with the traffic.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution so that the app can handle the new and varying load.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company runs a highly available data collection application on Amazon EC2 in the eu-north-1 Region. The application collects data from end-user devices and writes records to an Amazon Kinesis data stream and a set of AWS Lambda functions that process the records. The company persists the output of the record processing to an Amazon S3 bucket in eu-north-1. The company uses the data in the S3 bucket as a data source for Amazon Athena.The company wants to increase its global presence. A solutions architect must launch the data collection capabilities in the sa-east-1 and ap-northeast-1 Regions. The solutions architect deploys the application, the Kinesis data stream, and the Lambda functions in the two new Regions. The solutions architect keeps the S3 bucket in eu-north-1 to meet a requirement to centralize the data analysis.During testing of the new setup, the solutions architect notices a significant lag on the arrival of data from the new Regions to the S3 bucket.Which solution will improve this lag time the MOST?